Sunday, 16 December 2007

Juno

The song is not really about Mike Piazza, but more or less a love song. If you follow the lyrics, Stuart Murdoch, is reminiscencing about the time he shared his love of baseball and how they hung around the Giants' Candlestick Park in San Francisco. The lyrics are very colorful and descriptive.

Just to give you an idea of the lack of organization at W♥M, we have this shared "pending" list of bands we're working on and I guess Ryan was working on Herman Düne, which I'm actually sort of writing about today. Fortunately, I will not be too focused on Herman, but on David-Ivar's alter-ego, ...

I just saw Juno, the Jason Reitman film (of Thank You For Smoking fame). There are a few things that really impressed me about this witty and funny comedy: the actors, writing (although Juno, played by Ellen Page, is sometime too outrageous and quirky to be a believable 16 year old girl), the Minnesotan cities (!), and the awesome soundtrack.

If you haven't heard anything about this movie, the film is about Juno MacGuff who finds out that she's pregnant after having sex with Paulie Bleeker, played by the always awkward Michael Cera. She considered having an abortion, before changing her mind to give birth and to give up her baby for adoption. The movie follows her as she searches for the perfect couple to give up her baby and ultimately discovers herself and her true feelings.

The soundtrack consists mostly of Kimya Dawson (including a Moldy Peaches song, "Anyone Else but You", which really is the movie's anthem song) and, notably Belle & Sebastian (two songs, "Piazza New York Catcher" and "Expectations"), as well as Cat Power ("Sea of Love") and The Kinks ("A Well Respected Man").

On a side note, The Kinks seems to be enjoying a year of soundtrack as they also appeared on The Darjeeling Limited and Hot Fuzz.

So the song I wanted to use was the cover of The Moldy Peaches' "Anyone Else But You" (originally appearing on their debut 2001 album). What's really cool about this cover song is that it's actually sung by the two main actors, Ellen Page and Michael Cera. What's even cooler: the two actors played the song themselves on acoustic guitars :)

Anyway, a great soundtrack, but I'm sure all the blogs are also saying the same thing, so I'll just leave it at that.

PS, there is an appearance by Rainn Wilson who plays the store clerk at the beginning of the film. He really stole all the scene whenever he's on! Hilarious.

PPS, bonus points for mentioning The Wizard of Gore and Dario Argento's Susperia.

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The song is not really about Mike Piazza, but more or less a love song. If you follow the lyrics, Stuart Murdoch, is reminiscencing about the time he shared his love of baseball and how they hung around the Giants' Candlestick Park in San Francisco. The lyrics are very colorful and descriptive.

Just to give you an idea of the lack of organization at W♥M, we have this shared "pending" list of bands we're working on and I guess Ryan was working on Herman Düne, which I'm actually sort of writing about today. Fortunately, I will not be too focused on Herman, but on David-Ivar's alter-ego, ...

I just saw Juno, the Jason Reitman film (of Thank You For Smoking fame). There are a few things that really impressed me about this witty and funny comedy: the actors, writing (although Juno, played by Ellen Page, is sometime too outrageous and quirky to be a believable 16 year old girl), the Minnesotan cities (!), and the awesome soundtrack.

If you haven't heard anything about this movie, the film is about Juno MacGuff who finds out that she's pregnant after having sex with Paulie Bleeker, played by the always awkward Michael Cera. She considered having an abortion, before changing her mind to give birth and to give up her baby for adoption. The movie follows her as she searches for the perfect couple to give up her baby and ultimately discovers herself and her true feelings.

The soundtrack consists mostly of Kimya Dawson (including a Moldy Peaches song, "Anyone Else but You", which really is the movie's anthem song) and, notably Belle & Sebastian (two songs, "Piazza New York Catcher" and "Expectations"), as well as Cat Power ("Sea of Love") and The Kinks ("A Well Respected Man").

On a side note, The Kinks seems to be enjoying a year of soundtrack as they also appeared on The Darjeeling Limited and Hot Fuzz.

So the song I wanted to use was the cover of The Moldy Peaches' "Anyone Else But You" (originally appearing on their debut 2001 album). What's really cool about this cover song is that it's actually sung by the two main actors, Ellen Page and Michael Cera. What's even cooler: the two actors played the song themselves on acoustic guitars :)

Anyway, a great soundtrack, but I'm sure all the blogs are also saying the same thing, so I'll just leave it at that.

PS, there is an appearance by Rainn Wilson who plays the store clerk at the beginning of the film. He really stole all the scene whenever he's on! Hilarious.

PPS, bonus points for mentioning The Wizard of Gore and Dario Argento's Susperia.